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PAGE FOUR Tirttlon* NiWS MARCH 25, 1954 mm THE old joined the new at the Pennsylvania State Farm Show early in January when the first tractor to be equipped with Firestone tractor tires, complete with the original tires, was displayed beside a modern Champion Ground Grip tractor tire. Left to right, J. A. Straits, District Manager for the Firestone Company in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, shows the modern tire to Charles E. Webster, Allis Chalmers Branch Manager, and S. H. Sorensen, Implement Sales Manager for the Tractor Division of Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Company. First Set Of Low-Pressure Farm Tractor Tires Placed On Exhibit; Applied In ^32 IN 1932 The Firestone Tire &0- Rubber Company applied the first set of low-pressure farm-tractor tires ever designed to the tractor of Albert F. Schroeder of Prospect, Wisconsin. Twenty-two years later that original tractor with the first Fire stone tractor tires was displayed at the Pennsylvania State Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, during January. After the Farm Show it was presented to the Wis consin State Historical Society and will be on permanent exhibit there. In 1938 Mr. Schroeder, the original owner, said: “This tractor is still doing service and still has the original set of Firestone trac tor tires on it and they’re still saving time and fuel for me. “Using the tractor all the time, six years, winter and summer, I have never had a single puncture.” When Harvey S. Firestone pio neered and perfected the first practical pneumatic tractor tire in 1932, he not only made the great est contribution to power farming since the introduction of the trac tor, but also opened a vast new market for tires. Firestone Ground Grip tires have helped to make lightweight, in expensive, power-farming equip- McAbee Attends Ninth N. C. Safety School In Salisbury THE ninth annual North Caro lina Safety School, held March 22- 24, in Salisbury, N, C., was attend ed by 85 safety engineers from North Carolina’s transportation and manufacturing industries. In the group was L. B. McAbee, safe ty director for this plant. Mr. McAbee, who served on the 1954 Safety School Committee, In dustrial Section, reports the school a great success. He pointed to the talks by Edward Scheldt, Commis sioner of Vehicles for North Caro lina, and Ted Davis, Public Rela tions Director for Serv-Air Avia tion Corporation, as highlights in the 3-day program. Those attending the school re ceived certificates in safety from the school’s sponsor, N. C. State College. ment practical. This has extended the benefits of power farming to millions of farmers who could not afford the heavier, more-expensive, slow-moving tractors. Littk Leaguers^ Baseball Opener Set For April 19 BASEBALL SEASON opens of- fiqially for Firestone’s Little League team on April 19, when they meet St. Michaels at 6 p. m., at Todd Field. Firestone, defend ing Suddeth League champs, can rely on such second year varsity boys as Buford Turner, M. C. Huff- stetler, Sammy Honeycutt, and others, to add power at the plate and on the mound in early season play. Firestone will play in a 4-team league, as was the case last sea son, other teams being the Opti mist Club, St. Michaels, and Gas tonia Combed Yarns. According to Recreation Director Ralph Johnson, who has released the schedule below, each game will have a member of Firestone’s Recreational Council as sponsor. All games are to be played at Todd Field: Date April 19 April 22 April 26 April 29 May 3 May 6 May 10 May 13 May 17 May 20 May 24 May 27 May 31 June 3 June 7 June 10 June 14 June 17 Team Time St. Michaels .... 6:00 G. C. Y 7:30 Optimist 6:00 St. Michaels .... 7:30 G. C. Y 6:00 Optimist 7:30 St. Michaels 6:00 G. C. Y 7:30 Optimist 7:30 St. Michaels 6:00 G. C. Y 7:30 Optimist 6:00 St. Michaels 7:00 G. C. Y 6:00 Optimist 7:30 St. Michaels .... 6:00 G. C. Y 7:30 Optimist 6:00 Industrial Manage ment Courses (Continued From Page 1) agement courses now being offer ed at the Institute are an assist to anyone in the field of super vision—textile or otherwise. I personally have enjoyed the cours es I’ve taken very much.” Anthony E. Zelinski, Lincolnton, expresses his feeling by saying, “The N. C. State College Extension offers here in Gastonia a fine series of courses which will help anyone interested in basic manage ment techniques.” Mr. Zelinski drives to and from classes at the Institute from his home in Lincolnton, a record for commuting students now enrolled in the series. A Firestone Textiles employee, Sam Honeycutt, finds his studies at GTI tie in directly with his work in the Company’s Quality Control Department. “I’m learning the theory underlying the practical operations we perform daily in my work. I would recommend the management series to anyone in terested in bettering himself in the textile, or other industrial field.” * ♦ * ANOTHER Firestone employee, Alvin Riley, says, “I have thoro ughly enjoyed the course in Quali ty Control. The matter of apply ing the things you learn to your job presents an especially inter esting challenge to the student in this course, it seems to me.” “The courses offered in Indus trial Management which I have attended have been well presented and thorough, “W. F. Ashby, Tex tiles^, Inc., speaking. Mr. Ashby continues, “The subjects already completed in this series are ex tremely valuable to personnel in industry. I believe the class sched ules and level of presentation are well suited to the catagory of stu dents for which the courses were designed.” Elmer Barrett of Firestone Tex tiles sums up the consensus of opinion when he says, “I think the courses we are taking at GTI will greatly help us in the future and management, too, will benefit.” Eleven employees were enrolled in one or the other of the two Industrial Management courses just completed at Gaston Technical Institute. Taking Quality Control were: R. B. Hull, Sam Honeycutt, Raymond Mack, Henry Wilder, Alvin Riley, and Furman Clark. Completing Job Evaluation—their second course in the series—were: Elmer Barrett, James Moss, Thomas Grant, T. B. Ipock, Jr., and R. H. Hood. Applications and complete in formation regarding these courses may be obtained at the Industrial Relations Department. All inter ested employees are urged to make inquiry as soon as possible in this connection. Kite Flying Contest Attracts 25 Entries The Kite Flying Contest, an annual March event, attracted 25 contestants, according to Recrea tion Director Ralph Johnson. The contest, held in the Firestone Ball Park on March 17, produced the following winners: Roger Luns ford, altitude; Vance Ipock, best puller; and Billy Guffey, best deco rated kite. t; MRS. ELLA RUFF applies a colored clay to a figurine in her ceramics room at her home on 1116 East Drive in Gastonia. She is using the top of her kiln, which was not in use at the time, as a table. Wife Finds Ceramics A Nice, But Very Contagious, Hobby “BISQUE WEAR” and “leather hard” meant nothing to Mrs. Ella Ruff of the Weaving Department until she discovered a liking for ceramics in 1952. Now her vocabulary includes these and other picture sque words used by clay modelers to describe their tedious work and fragile product. “It’s catching,” she says inO—ti — :— pointmg out the fact that her hus- ‘Sickness of clay to stick to the in band. Section Man J. C. Ruff, was also a ceramics fan, having gotten interested in it after she had pro duced a num,ber of attractive and useful objects for him to admire. “Now we work together at it; he makes the molds, I do the decorat ing of the green wear.” At this point she paused to ex plain the meaning of some of the words used in connection with ceramics. “Green wear,” says she, “is the modeled or molded ceramic piece before it is kiln dried; bisque wear is the undecorated, kiln dried ceramics piece.” The kiln, incidentally, is the most important and costly item of equipment used by ceramics hob- biest. Mrs. Ruff is proud of her 121-cubic-inch electric kiln which she purchased for approximately $85.00. In it she has kiln dried and glazed some 200 clay objects. The clay she and her husband use for the most part is a liquid called “slip.” All molded ceramic objects are made with slip, accord ing to Mrs. Ruff. “It’s very simple to use,” she advises, “just pour it in your plaster-of-paris mold and leave it long enough for a proper side walls of the mold, then pour ^ the remaining slip back into your storage container.” AFTER removing the molded piece from the mold it is allowed to dry for three days, or until it is leather hard—completely air dried. Then comes “cleaning up” (removing excess clay and smooth ing out rough spots and edges), green wear decorating, kiln drying, and glazing in that order. (Deco rating can be done either before or after kiln drying using glazes or colored clays, etc., depending on which time you select.) The kiln drying step may be re peated once or more times depend ing on what kind and how much decorating the individual wants to perform. “I can bake a cake fast er,” continues Mrs. Ruff, “than I can kiln dry a single clay object, but then I suppose the ceramics wear lasts longer.” To this her ^ husband agreed with a smile. S Cutting the excess clay from a mold, he ventured the opinion, “That’s the only trouble I find in ceramics. ... all this baking- about five hours at a stretch and nothing to eat!” SEC. 34.66 P. L. & R- U. S. POSTAGE PAro GASTONIA, N. C. PERMIT NO. 29
